Lexical Summary mathach: to spread out Original Word: מָתַחTransliteration: mathach Phonetic Spelling: (maw-thakh') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to spread out Meaning: to stretch out Strong's Concordance spread out A primitive root; to stretch out -- spread out. Brown-Driver-Briggs H4969. mathach [מָתַח] verb spread out (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic , מְתַח; Arabic be long, long (probably load-word); compare perhaps Assyrian matâ—u, direct the eyes toward); — only Qal Imperfect3masculine singular suffix וַיִּמְתָּחֵם Isaiah 40:22 and he (׳י) hath spread them (the heavens) out as a tent to dwell in. |
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